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Elizabeth Light

Grandma's Italian Drop Cookies

A delicious cookie perfect for the holidays and a Christmas Cookie Swap!
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Cook Time 12 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups flour
  • 6 tbsp Crisco
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract or lemon extract
  • Pinch salt

Method
 

  1. Using an electric mixer, mix together first 5 ingredients (flour, Crisco or you can sub 8 tbsp of unsalted butter for the Crisco), sugar, baking powder, baking soda and a pinch of salt.
  2. Mix milk, eggs and flavoring together, then add to flour mixture (make a well in the flour mixture and then add the milk mixture and beat together).
  3. Drop by tsp or tbsp. You can also use a cookie scooper.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 min.
  5. While baking cookies make the frosting using 1 cup of powdered sugar, a touch of vanilla extract, small amount of hot water and a pat of melted butter. Frosting should not be watery. Frost cookies while they are warm.
  6. Decorate with festive sprinkles for the holidays.

Notes

*I subbed 8 tsbp of butter for the 6 tbsp of Crisco and subbed almond milk for whole milk. They are great either way but may be helpful for those with dairy restrictions to to use almond milk. Also melting the butter slightly before mixing I found is very helpful!